left to my own devices

[fflo]

now that's an expression, innit.

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[disclaimerwill.livejournal.com]

Not just an expression, but a Pet Shop Boys song! :)

[fflo.livejournal.com]

my scholarship on these artists is woefully lacking!

[shmizla.livejournal.com]

what's your favorite device?

[fflo.livejournal.com]

i always say i like the yoking ones (or jok-ing, in the good family jok). zeugma, e.g. but i'm not sure that's fully true.

is it a device to have multiple layers of meaning? is ambiguity a device?

i don't know that i could live without metaphor. who could?

(somehow having you ask the question i go right to rhetoric.)

[shmizla.livejournal.com]

i don't believe in rhetoric--i think language is all there is :)

i think it's a device to be following the many layers at once, like a mechanical loom did. revolutionary!

[(Anonymous)]

that's funny cuz i don't believe in "language"--i think graduate students are all there is.

[shmizla.livejournal.com]

that is most certainly correct!